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Posted by m beduya on November 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Political science seems the natural limit to an enjoyable journey of synthesis that started with innovation. For an emerging market, I always believed that Government has a big role to play in catch up development. This is proven especially by the success of our neighbors in East Asia. The question is more about how to [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment · Tagged with Brazil, China, co-evolution, developmental state, Ha Joon Chang, India, industrial policy, innovation, innovation systems, political science, Richard Nelson, soft state, Strong state, SYNTHESiST, varieties of capitalism
Posted by m beduya on May 7, 2011 · 1 Comment
Industrial Policy has been equated with Socialism in America from the middle off the 20th century. As an epithet hurled at President Obama typically by tea party members, Socialism is taken today as a term of abuse. Industrial policy has become a cliché where mere mention is often followed by outright rejection. In today’s cluttered [...]
Filed under Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy · Tagged with Alexander Hamilton, China, competitiveness, Dani Rodrik, emerging markets, export-led industrialization, Germany, import-substitution industrialization, India, industrial policy, Japan, spillovers
Posted by m beduya on March 26, 2011 · 1 Comment
Yesterday, McKinsey published Global cities of the future showing the 600 cities that will account for more than 60% of global GDP growth by 2025. From the article, I derived McKinsey’s current thinking behind the report – a disturbing though not surprising insight to me – that Manila will stay a laggard among its peer [...]
Filed under Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Geographic Clusters - ASEAN, Sectors, Regions and Cities · Tagged with China, co-evolution, Dani Rodrik, India, Indonesia, industrial policy, innovation systems, Joseph Schumpeter, Manila, McKinsey, Philippines, productivity, Vietnam
Posted by m beduya on March 24, 2011 · 9 Comments
Modern versions of industrial policy and the broader field of development economics are coming back into center stage says Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz in an IMF blog. This renewal comes after the failure of neoclassical macroeconomics to forecast the recent financial crisis and to explain the continuing success of emerging markets like China and India [...]
Filed under Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems, Social Innovation · Tagged with appropriate technology, China, co-evolution, competitiveness, Dani Rodrik, Douglass North, emerging markets, general purpose technologies, global supply chains, India, industrial policy, innovation systems, productivity, Richard Nelson, value-adding potential
Posted by m beduya on December 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
There is good news and bad news in the world of microfinance. First, the bad news. As I have noted in SYNTHESiST on November 21, 2010 at the end of the post on CARD MRI, the Philippines best (my take) and largest microfinance institution (MFI), there is a looming crisis in Andra Pradesh, India as [...]
Posted by m beduya on December 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The 2010 IBM Global Location Trends report was the sole basis for self-congratulating articles in Philippine newspapers who played up the positive on business support services. Indeed, we have much to be proud about the success of the IT-enabled contact center industry, as source of export dollars and employment, thus far. Note: I did have [...]
Filed under Adjacencies in Value Chains - Business Model x Technology · Tagged with business process outsourcing, emerging markets, India, India Tata, industrial policy, knowledge economy, Nano, outsourcing, Philippines, productivity, ship crewing
Posted by m beduya on November 30, 2010 · 1 Comment
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Bass Diffusion Model, catch-up, China, co-evolution, competitiveness, diffusion, emerging markets, endogenous technological change, Everett Rogers, increasing returns, India, industrial policy, innovation systems, Joseph Schumpeter, Nathan Rosenberg, Richard Nelson
Posted by m beduya on November 21, 2010 · 2 Comments
In December 1986, the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) Inc. was organized as a social development foundation to address the growing poverty incidence in depressed communities in Regions IV and V. From the beginning, CARD sought to achieve this goal by turning poor, landless, rural women into an army of entrepreneurs by granting [...]
Filed under Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise and Innovations, Social Innovation · Tagged with CARD MRI, co-evolution, GLOBELICS, Grameen, inclusive development, India, innovation for the poor, microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, Philippines, Sectoral innovation systems
Posted by m beduya on November 15, 2010 · 2 Comments
This is a great book for someone looking at innovation from a theoretical, evolutionary economics standpoint – the papers are good focusing devices for guiding a practical strategy for a country like the Philippines that must be finally defined by local context. The book looks at innovation mainly from a social science point of view [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with catch-up, China, competitiveness, emerging markets, entrepreneur, evolutionary economics, India, innovation systems, Jan Fagerberg, Joseph Schumpeter, SYNTHESiST
Posted by m beduya on November 9, 2010 · 5 Comments
The 8th GLOBELICS jumped right into its first order of business in the plenary and in Track 1 of the parallel sessions, “Innovation for the Poor [and Inclusive Development].” This after doing the right first thing in the memorial to Christopher Freeman. The highlight in the Innovation for the Poor track was the special panel [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with appreciative theory, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, China, Christopher Freeman, co-evolution, emerging markets, GLOBELICS, inclusive development, India, innovation for the poor, innovation systems, Joseph Schumpeter, productivity, Rajeswari Raina, Richard Nelson, Robert Solow, Shulin Gu
Posted by m beduya on November 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Economic and social convergence with USA by 2048 At the inaugural TEDIndia event, Hans Rosling, a notable statistician, says that China and India will catch up with the United States on July 27, 2048 which just happens to be his 100 birthday. He starts his time series from 1858, a notable year in technology and [...]
Posted by m beduya on November 19, 2009 · 10 Comments
Benedict Anderson’s imagined community powers nationhood “In Fuzhou, far away, my wife is watching The moon alone tonight… When will we feel the moonlight dry our tears, Leaning together on our windowsill?” In 1983, way before the Internet, a special friend implored me to gaze at the moon while at the same time she looked [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Social Innovation · Tagged with ASEAN, Benedict Anderson, China, emerging markets, Imagined Communities, India, Max Weber, Social Innovation, Wang Yang Ming, Yoshida Shoin
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